Asit related to Dan Rea, I started ti listen as I thought his show would bring a good balance to the airwaves. As long as you agree with him he is civil if you disagree he will insult you and then talk about you for the next hour…”Like John from Dedham…” mocking the caller. He’s a cordial bully. Rea also insists that you call law enforcement personnel “police officers” and not “cops” and then opens his show with a whine about political correctness ruining discussion (incidentally his brother is a police officer). I am doing an old fashioned jig at the news that TKK is dead. NOw where to go for good talk radio. I wish someone would bring back Margerie Claprood, and some other more conservative host to brings some spark to the Boston airwaves.

Talk 1200 folded and Rush Limbaugh’s broadcast returned to WRKO at the end of August 2012. That would be the bump in WRKO’s ratings after August. I’m not trying to be snide, but ignoring Limbaugh’s impact in the above article and subsequent conversation is kind of like debating the reasons for the rise in popularity of the NBA in the ’90′s but ignoring Michael Jordan

The now ruined talk-station started it’s downward spiral when it manufactured a reason to fire Jay Severin back in April of 2011, after which, the station seemed to lose its way. The program director at WTKK didn’t seem to realize what its dedicated listenership wanted/needed to hear. As the station continued to move away from local, on-air talent, it sealed its fate in the talk-radio format. Quasi-liberals from out of town and plain-vanilla-blah was passed off as interesting talk… we aren’t that dumb, in the end, Graham was the only voice worth listening to. The more weak-kneed the station got, the fewer regular listeners it drew.

The hilarlity is: WTKK is to be reborn as a “rythmic oldies” station… just what the Boston area needs, another radio outlet playing watered-down rock music !

I got hooked on talk-radio driving an AM-only radioed car, in the evenings doing a particularly mundane job when I was a kid. The culprits ? David Brudnoy & Eddie Andelman – they handled vastly different subject matter, yet the two divergent talkers were both very skillied at entertaining the listener.

I wonder how long it will take WRKO to go all elevator music, all the time ? I will miss talk radio.

I’ve occasionally listened during the day, when on the road, and even the ads went from high end custom cabinetry to relentless penis enhancement ads, so I suspect all the intelligent listeners left when I did. Hmmm, I wonder if that’s an indication of the tastes of the listeners to Air America style radio? Must be, because every radio station that tries to foist their political correctness down our throats goes down in flames.

“Angry is NOT over”, we just stopped listening to your station. You switched from people being legitimately angry about how this country is going off the rails, discussing how we could fix it, to relentlessly snide remarks to/about each caller that doesn’t fall in line with the acceptable thought-police dictates. How’s all that Calm discourse working out for ya?

Not only will I not miss you, I won’t even notice you’re gone, because I stopped listening long ago. Just like the rest of us, who don’t need the thought police to tell us what our opinions should be. Sayonara, baby!

Not according to Arbitron: via Radio Online